Meriem Bennani: Life on the Caps - Hardcover

Labarge, Emily; Wilk, Elvia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0941548872 ISBN 13: 9780941548878

Verlag: Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

A catalog for an exhibition of the latest chapter in Miriem Bennani’s CAPS film project.

Meriem Bennani is a Moroccan artist who lives and works in New York. Life on the CAPS is the final chapter in her film trilogy of the same name. Set in a supernatural, dystopian future surrounding a fictional island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, it is rooted in Bennani’s research and reflections on the histories of island societies, biotechnology, and vernacular music. Layering live-action footage and computer-generated animation, Bennani intuitively adapts editing techniques that evoke documentary film, science fiction, phone footage, music videos, and reality TV. Her one-person exhibition at the Renaissance Society marked the debut of this personal, electric yet melancholic consideration of what it is to live in a state of limbo, and this accompanying book captures the film through a combination of still images and selections from a transcript of the film.

Enacting a variety of cunning shifts, Life on the CAPS moves fluidly from the imaginary to the geopolitical and ranges from the microscopic scale of DNA to the global eye of surveillance. At the same time, it engages with the power of individual experience as well as the power of collectivity while building on an emotive, formal experimentation that refutes boundaries.

This volume includes transcripts of conversations between Meriem Bennani and Omar Berrada, Fatima Al Quadiri and Bidoun, Amal Benzekri, and Aziz Bouyabrine.
 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Meriem Bennani is an artist from Morocco who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Bennani’s work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, the Guggenheim Museum, Art Dubai, the Foundation Louis Vuitton, Public Art Fund, the Kitchen, and CLEARING, among other venues. Negar Azimi is a writer and editor-in-chief of Bidoun. Tiffany Malakooti is an independent graphic designer and head of special projects at Bidoun.
 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0941548872
• ISBN 13: 9780941548878
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 213
• Herausgeber: Azimi Negar, Malakooti Tiffany
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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